Artificially sentient beings: Moral, political, and legal issues

Fırat Akova
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The emergence of artificially sentient beings raises moral, political, and legal issues that deserve scrutiny. First, it may be difficult to understand the well-being elements of artificially sentient beings and theories of well-being may have to be reconsidered. For instance, as a theory of well-being, hedonism may need to expand the meaning of happiness and suffering or it may run the risk of being irrelevant. Second, we may have to compare the claims of artificially sentient beings with the claims of humans. This calls for interspecies aggregation, which is a neglected form of interpersonal aggregation. Lastly, there are practical problems to address, such as whether to include artificially sentient beings in the political decision-making processes, whether to grant them a right to self-determination in digital worlds, and how to protect them from discrimination. Given these, the emergence of artificially sentient beings compels us to reevaluate the positions we typically hold.

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人工感知:道德、政治和法律问题
人工感知生物的出现引发了值得仔细研究的道德、政治和法律问题。首先,可能很难理解人工感知生物的幸福要素,可能必须重新考虑幸福理论。例如,作为一种幸福理论,享乐主义可能需要扩大幸福和痛苦的含义,否则可能会有无关紧要的风险。其次,我们可能不得不将人工感知生物的主张与人类的主张进行比较。这就需要种间聚合,这是一种被忽视的人际聚合形式。最后,还有一些实际问题需要解决,例如是否将人工感知的生物纳入政治决策过程,是否赋予他们在数字世界中的自决权,以及如何保护他们免受歧视。鉴于这些,人工感知生物的出现迫使我们重新评估我们通常持有的立场。
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